At 3, Hongo Seventh Street, Bunkyo Ward, a black Toyota Century slowly pulled up outside the vermilion-painted university gate.
During the Edo Period, feudal lords who married princesses of the Tokugawa shogun's family had to build a goshuden gate, painting it an auspicious crimson, hence the name Red Gate.
The University of Tokyo's Red Gate was the only goshuden gate to survive into modern times, so students admitted to the university were often described as having "stepped through the Red Gate."
After getting out of the car, Matsudaira Chiyo affectionately linked arms with Uchiha Naruto, and they walked side by side toward the Red Gate, chatting and laughing.
Of course, Matsudaira Chiyo could not keep wearing her maid outfit in public. She wore a fully hand-tailored black dress, paired with an expensive jeweled hair ornament, which made her look all the more radiant.
Uchiha Naruto wore a white shirt and black suit trousers. With sharp brows, bright eyes, and a tall, straight figure, he had tied his hair into a fashionable bun at the back of his head.
"You aren't wearing the watch I gave you today?"
"That Rolex diving watch is too flashy."
Here we go again.
Matsudaira Chiyo tilted her head, looking as though she really did not know what to do with him, and reached out with both hands to straighten the front of his shirt, chiding him:
"Darling, with your current standing, you need to dress appropriately when you go out. You leave the car I got you sitting unused, too. What's one watch?"
Watching Matsudaira Chiyo attentively straighten his collar, Uchiha Naruto could not help chuckling.
"What is it?"
"I remembered when I was still at Jinguji High School. Didn't you say you would introduce your maid to me? You never imagined you would be